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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, killing Nash, Hey, good morning, good morning, tomorrow show today.
Thank god tomorrow is Friday, and we got no rain
in the forecast, but very well weekend, right, yeah, very
little rain in the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It would be a beautiful weekend here in South Carolinas.
We get ready for the end of summer and we
get ready for gamecock football. What do we think? Just
it'll be two weeks till kickoff.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That's right, high school football is gonna be kicking off here.
We get all kind of good stuff coming. Now, let's
get into what we're going to get into tomorrow other
than your last opportunity to win or In Zider's tickets
for the show that goes on sale tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh, I were so we're going to do it again.
I guess. Okay, I wasn't sure on that one, because
I know we were calling it beat the box office.
I guess if we do it before ten am, I
guess we are still technically beating the box office.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yes, so, yeah, well either.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Way, and you can register to win Warrensider's tickets right
now at ninety seven five WCS dot com. That's right,
We've got a lady I probably shouldn't say her name,
she says. She says, please don't judge me, don't She
wants to be in the judgment free zone. She says,
she has been having a rough past few months at
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my job. And it's like most office job, sit at
the desk all day type things out, talk to people
you don't like, and I just feel like it's soul
sucking and I can't do it anymore. And I want
to look for another job. And it's really tough to
look for another job while you're going to work every day.
(01:32):
You can't work for look for It.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Was always easy to find a job when you got
a job. What about that?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's what they say. But she hasn't been successful, and
she's like, I'm hoping perhaps somebody could suggest a way
that I could get fired where I can keep my
unemployment benefits. I don't want to quit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, you can't do something's going to follow you around
when you try to get a recommendation. They're going to
call your old boss.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So how how would you do that? And if you're
not passing judgment on her, I mean, she don't want
your judgment, she just wants your advice.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, this is interesting. I'm sure we have that. The
morning was your regulars. How to face this situation? What
do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You have you ever been intentionally fired?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, I don't think I've ever been intentionally fired either.
I've been fired a lot, a lot, but I don't
remember ever trying to scheme and hiding.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Fire scheme to get fired.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, no, yeah, I I remember the at a radio
station in Rutland, Vermont.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I was miserable there, and my girlfriend at the time
suggested that I just move back to Connecticut and give
up the radio dream I was, I want to say,
I was twenty two ish and so I had hoped
that they would fire me, but they were I didn't
have any spectacular plans on how to get fired. I
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did eventually, after a few weeks of just I don't know,
performing below level I'll say yea or with less enthusiasm,
I went in and told the boss, look, I have
to give you my two weeks notice and assumed that
that meant I would be leaving today. Because that's how
it is always worked in radio. You never get an
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opportunity to say goodbye to an audience, not anymore now,
because it can go crazy wrong once you let somebody
who has nothing left to lose an opportunity on a microphone.
You have no idea what they're going to say, get one.
So yeah, they never give you that opportunity. So, but
not up in Routland, Vermont. They were so desperate they said, okay,
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well we're moving you now to the overnight show. So
I got bumped from nights to overnights. And because I
was a dummy, rather than just leaving, I said, okay,
and I might need you guys for a future reference.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And so I worked overnights the last two weeks in Rutland,
and they probably shouldn't have let me do that. If
there's anybody who was working in the Rutland Police Department
back in nineteen I want to say this was eighty seven.
Perhaps how many years ago was eighty seven, that's like
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thirty five years.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Ago now or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
If anybody was working in the Rutland, Vermont Police Department
in nineteen eighty seven, perhaps you responded to a call
that was me pranking the whoever was listening at five
in the morning. I had started doing this bit at
about three point thirty in the morning, where I was
recording myself calling the radio station as a redneck upset
(04:43):
that I wouldn't play SKINNERD or something like that, like
woy would you blazing Skinner you dang? And IM sir,
we don't play Leonard SKINNERD were today's best music or
whatever the frequency positioning was. But it was just me
talking to myself on a phone. And the final before
the morning show comes in, I acted as if in
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my last break, all right, Kelly Nash, wrapping it up,
We'll be back tomorrow night midnight, be here with you
till five am. And then there's a knock on the door,
and I had pre recorded myself going, ah, he ain't
so tough. Now that I'm here in person, I'm like,
oh my god, what are you doing here? And then
I had a sound effect of a shotgun and then
I fell on the board and it was just dead air.
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And then I waited about ten seconds and I hit
a commercial. And the commercials were set up, even in
those days where they could play in a row. There's
a pre computers, but they had to what they were
called sec tones on the commercial, so I knew there'd
be five minutes of commercials, and then there was a
jingle into a song, so we're covered. Even though the
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morning show's not here, they should be here other time.
And so I just walked out, got my car. It
was already packed, and I just started the drip back
to Connecticut at like five in the morning. And I
always wondered, were there any like listeners called the Rutland
Police Department. I think the DJ on the Grade ninety
seven just got shot live on the radio. It would
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have been believable. And I set it up that way.
I was an idiot, and I apologize if anybody fell
for that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That was back in the day when gunplay was fun.
I was doing a broadcast one morning here in Columbia
when I first came back on a billboard, and I've
forgotten who thought it was a great idea. It could
have been Sammy. Sammy thought would be a great idea
if we did drive by. So there were gunshots that
ring out, and then I've forgotten what we put on
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the air, but I'm yelling, oh my god, he's got
a gun, you know, just and Sally's listening.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh so she really thinks this is oh yeah, she's
going nuts. This is not funny.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, that was that's not comedy. I don't know how
many Morning Russia regulars enjoyed it, but she said that
is not comedy.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I like how you said. I don't know who came
up with it. It was Sammy. You immediately it was
just blame it on him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He's not even here anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, cellular Sammy must have done.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's great. All right, no gunplay tomorrow in the morning Rush.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's our pledge to you.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Have you come up with a way. Have you seen
this pulled off where somebody comes up with a way
to get fired so they can because they're tired of
their soul second job and while they look for another job,
they'd rather be collecting unemployment. That's the key.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah. I don't know how to do that one.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's a tough one, I do. I just did hear
you were talking about never getting an opportunity to go
back on the air for a spon song. I'm transferring
a lot of Kelly can tell you my my office
supposed office is a storage facility. His boxes of cassette tapes.
So and I just heard one yesterday. I'm transferring to digital.
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It was one of my last shows. I just happened
to hear me say it's the last show, last show
for where I was. I think I was in Charlotte. Oh,
it was the last show the last day I was
on the air in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So, but you know, you don't get those opportunities anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You were probably going to work for maybe a company
and Raleigh or something that they kind of knew each other,
the owners knew each other. And so if you couldn't
screw that up, because if you did, then they would
have just called up to rally and said, this guy
is a total jerk. Drop them. Drop them.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So my, by the way, I'm doing pretty good to
cleaning my office out of all these cassettes. I've got cassettes.
Now I got to figure out what I'm going to
do to destroy them now that I have transferred them
to digital.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, I can tell you've already read our next story
at ninety seventy five w sos dot com. The number
one selling form of music is now cassettes. It is
surpassed CDs, It has surpassed records. Can you believe this? Cassettes?
Cassettes are coming back. Four hundred and thirty thousand music
cassettes were sold last year. They're on target out to
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do two million this year, unbelievable and number one and
buy her gen Z. Gen Z apparently thinks it's cute
when they see it on old television shows. They see
the cassettes. The New York Post speaks with Amy Campbell,
twenty six year old in Rockford, Illinois, who bought the
new Casey Musgraves album on cassette. Here's my favorite part
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of the story. I borrowed my mom's cassette player, but
I didn't know how to actually play it. I studied
it for about five or ten minutes trying to figure
out how to get this thing going on. I don't know.
It just says she didn't know how to put a
cassette into the cassette player, and so she had to
get her mom to come show her. And she says
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it is a little bit tiring trying to figure out
how to fast forward, rewind the cars. You just try
to get to the song that you want to hear now.
But it's adorable, it's charming, it's vintage, so they're going
with it. Have you bought anything vintage like recently, just
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something that like, like my wife bought a record player
and so she's got some records now and she likes particularly,
I think the jazz records, and I think these are reissued.
I don't think these are original jazz albums or whatever,
so to speak. But she just loves the way it
sounds on a record player.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Lee bought one of those, and I've forgotten the company
is very popular with the ones all that the youngsters
are buying. Lee bought one of those record players. And
the only time we ever use it is Sally has
some old records that her mom used to play during Christmas,
and she will put it on that and you hear
the pops and the scratches and all that, and it
really sounds like you just transported yourself back to nineteen whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I like the way records sounded over CDs in the
sense that they felt more full to me, CDs sounded
kind of I don't I don't know if the word
tinny is the right word, but thin, something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But that's the thing with the with the new digital technology,
there's the audio is rest so you don't get the
full audio feel from listening to an album. You put
on an album. You put on a led Zeppelin album
on a really good system.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Ok, side of the moon with your headphones absolutely in
your bedroom, you're thirteen again.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The But I'm just trying to think of other things
that people like. I know that one of the more
popular things would be to get the retro looking blenders, right,
the retro kitchen gadgets, But they're not actually them. They're
the they're updated. They can do all the things that
you want them to do today, not like they did
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in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This morning, I would for whatever reason, I don't know
why I thought about this. Oh, I remember thinking, I'm
on a milkshake. It was like six twenty this morning,
and I remember my grandparents had a general store in Newbery,
right there at the Milliken on the mill Hill over there,
across from the Oakland base Ballpark, and I would go
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ahead and get them to make me a milkshake. It
was the old fashioned spindle. It's got the one spindle.
It was a Hamilton beach. It's green. It's that ugly
avocado green color. And when I moved from Charlotte, my
grandmother giving me one. She gave one of my brothers,
And when I moved from Charlotte, I left it in
a cabinet and I called the guy back as soon
as I got to Ohio, and I said, hey, I
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left a blender in the cabinet, and do me a favor.
Just put that aside. A friend come by and pick
it up. And he said, now, I've already cleaned out
the house. There's no blender in there.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm already gone.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And you look them up now to get the original
blender like that. Those things are expensive, the not the
remanufactured ones. Sure, the original. I want one of those.
And I was just recently shopping for a jukebox, oh okay,
like the one they had at the Civitan Pool in Saluta. Yeah,
that old fashioned jukebox. I loved the old warlt sirs,
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remember that had the lights on the front. You punch
in L seven and they would play Diamond Girl by
Silas and Crofts.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For some reason, I was listening to some Oldies channel
or something recently and I heard please, mister, please don't
play B seventeen from Olivia Newton John And if you're
not from the jukebox era, you have no idea what
she's talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
What was a Strawberry Letter twenty three? Name of the
album was busted out of L seven. Was that it?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I think that was it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's another reference to a jukebox.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But you know, whether it's music, kitchen gadgets, like I
would think that most will say I feel like it's
more of a nostalgia feel so like I remember being
a kid working at my grandparents' antique store and we
would sell old milk bottles. People liked them because it
reminded them of the nineteen fifties. Now we're only in
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the nineteen seventies, but they were Like when I was
a kid, I'd go out on the back porch and
there'd be the fresh, new glass milk bottle. We didn't
think anything of them. But it's so great to be
able to buy I want and keep it because it
was a nostalgic thing for them to have. It's part
of their childhood. I can't imagine, Like I don't know,
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I'm fifty seven now, so i'd have to go back
to something from like the nineteen fifties or forties, Like
I wouldn't be interested in reliving something that I never
lived through. Where today it's the twenty six year old
wants to experience cassette tapes.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yes to me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Cassette tapes sucked. They used to rip, they they get stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
In the machine.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I hated cassettes. I couldn't wait for CDs to be invented.
And then when they got invented, I was like, these
still suck. They skip all the time. Will somebody invented
MP three? And finally we're now at a level where
I can just listen to any song I want on
the iHeartRadio app at any time. And I love this.
I don't want to go back.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I just thought about what I saw recently. I've forgotten
how I stumbled into it. I've forgotten I had it.
It was called a clam phone. Oh yeah, sure, so
called it a maybe a princess phone. I don't remember that.
But sad, this is the one that Sally had in
her room as a teenager. Okay, and I need to go.
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It's got a different connection now. I need to rewire
it so I can plug it in so we'll actually
have Sally's teenage.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh my gosh. But imagine imagine going back even further
and getting one of those old school like were you know,
the kind like you see in like nineteen twenty, and
put that in your house like, why would you want that?
You didn't live through that era.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now Sarah's only two, so she has no idea what
she's looking at. But my dad has one of those
on the wall and it's got a little light attached
to it because you know, when you crank it, Yeah,
it actually generates electricity. That's how that's how you know.
It's fired up signal to the operator you want to
make a call. So we were and now I was
the I've cranked my arm off the other day, cranking
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that you really? Yeah, she loved the sound of it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
By the way. Side note on phone numbers from I
guess I was born in the sixties, but I think
they were still using it in the sixties. Are you
familiar with Like how could somebody's phone number be like
Beechwood seven five Oh No.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I have no idea how that worked.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's like they always give me.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Movies and he goes, yes, alb uh, it's Alpine.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I guess it must have been the street. I don't know,
I'm on I'm on Beechwood Street. And then I only
had four digits seven to five oh one for or something.
And then an operator would somehow physically connect you that's insane.
We have some breaking news here and I see it
on MSNBC. I'm reading it here on TMZ as well,
that there's been several arrests made this morning regarding the
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Matthew Perry overdose.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Gotta be some drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, they got a drug dealer at least one, and
they've got a doctor. So they don't have the names
at least in the TMZ story yet this is you know,
did that whatever happened to the doctor involved in the Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Jackson I do not.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I think that guy ended up going to jail, didn't
I think, because I think most.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
People lost he lost his license.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
The Michael Jackson doctor. That that's one of the most
frustrating things to me because the Michael Jackson doctor literally
had one job. You sit here while I sleep and
make sure my heart keeps going.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, And he was big.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sure Michael Jackson was paying him a ton of
dough to do that one job.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And he left, We're gonna put you under propo ball.
All you gotta do is monitor me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's all you had to do, Bro. And he left
and he comes back like an hour and a half later.
Michael Jackson's dead the one time. I don't know, I
don't know how many times the guy probably have left early,
but this one time you leave so I'd see the
death of Michael Jackson. I'm trying to see. Murray said
he was worried he became dependent. Blah blah blah. Wow,
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And in twenty sixteen, Inside Edition reported that that doctor
Murray is still visiting patients.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Really, I am shocked.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Did he ever go to jail? He was formally charged
in twenty eleven with involuntary manslaughter, went to trial, convicted
of involuntary manslaughter. Bail was revoked and remained in custody
till his November twenty nine sentencing date. He got the
maximum penalty of four years in prison, and his medical
license was revoked in Texas, but California and Nevada only
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suspended those licenses, and instead of doing all four years,
he got out. I guess he got out a year
later in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So shocking.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So he did a year for the death of Michael Jackson.
That seems an underwhelming sentence. But anyway, I don't know
what they're gonna do with these doctors.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What's his name again? I gotta committed the memory in
case he ever comes here. Conrad Murray, Yeah, go ahead,
this is doctor Conrad Murray. Oh, Michael Jackson, I think
I'll reschedule. Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about. Let us know. You know how
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Speaker 2 (19:11):
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Speaker 1 (19:14):
Tomorrow we start talking getting into the weekend t GIF.
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Hello, killing Nash, Hey, good morning, good morning, tomorrow show today.
Thank god tomorrow is Friday, and we got no rain
in the forecast, but very well weekend, right, yeah, very
little rain in the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It would be a beautiful weekend here in South Carolinas.
We get ready for the end of summer and we
get ready for gamecock football. What do we think? Just
it'll be two weeks till kickoff.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That's right, high school football is gonna be kicking off here.
We get all kind of good stuff coming. Now, let's
get into what we're going to get into tomorrow other
than your last opportunity to win or In Zider's tickets
for the show that goes on sale tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh, I were so we're going to do it again.
I guess. Okay, I wasn't sure on that one, because
I know we were calling it beat the box office.
I guess if we do it before ten am, I
guess we are still technically beating the box office.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yes, so, yeah, well either.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Way, and you can register to win Warrensider's tickets right
now at ninety seven five WCS dot com. That's right,
We've got a lady I probably shouldn't say her name,
she says. She says, please don't judge me, don't She
wants to be in the judgment free zone. She says,
she has been having a rough past few months at
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my job. And it's like most office job, sit at
the desk all day type things out, talk to people
you don't like, and I just feel like it's soul
sucking and I can't do it anymore. And I want
to look for another job. And it's really tough to
look for another job while you're going to work every day.
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You can't work for look for It.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Was always easy to find a job when you got
a job. What about that?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's what they say. But she hasn't been successful, and
she's like, I'm hoping perhaps somebody could suggest a way
that I could get fired where I can keep my
unemployment benefits. I don't want to quit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, you can't do something's going to follow you around
when you try to get a recommendation. They're going to
call your old boss.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So how how would you do that? And if you're
not passing judgment on her, I mean, she don't want
your judgment, she just wants your advice.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, this is interesting. I'm sure we have that. The
morning was your regulars. How to face this situation? What
do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You have you ever been intentionally fired?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, I don't think I've ever been intentionally fired either.
I've been fired a lot, a lot, but I don't
remember ever trying to scheme and hiding.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Fire scheme to get fired.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, no, yeah, I I remember the at a radio
station in Rutland, Vermont.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I was miserable there, and my girlfriend at the time
suggested that I just move back to Connecticut and give
up the radio dream I was, I want to say,
I was twenty two ish and so I had hoped
that they would fire me, but they were I didn't
have any spectacular plans on how to get fired. I
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did eventually, after a few weeks of just I don't know,
performing below level I'll say yea or with less enthusiasm,
I went in and told the boss, look, I have
to give you my two weeks notice and assumed that
that meant I would be leaving today. Because that's how
it is always worked in radio. You never get an
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opportunity to say goodbye to an audience, not anymore now,
because it can go crazy wrong once you let somebody
who has nothing left to lose an opportunity on a microphone.
You have no idea what they're going to say, get one.
So yeah, they never give you that opportunity. So, but
not up in Routland, Vermont. They were so desperate they said, okay,
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well we're moving you now to the overnight show. So
I got bumped from nights to overnights. And because I
was a dummy, rather than just leaving, I said, okay,
and I might need you guys for a future reference.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And so I worked overnights the last two weeks in Rutland,
and they probably shouldn't have let me do that. If
there's anybody who was working in the Rutland Police Department
back in nineteen I want to say this was eighty seven.
Perhaps how many years ago was eighty seven, that's like
(04:18):
thirty five years.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Ago now or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
If anybody was working in the Rutland, Vermont Police Department
in nineteen eighty seven, perhaps you responded to a call
that was me pranking the whoever was listening at five
in the morning. I had started doing this bit at
about three point thirty in the morning, where I was
recording myself calling the radio station as a redneck upset
(04:43):
that I wouldn't play SKINNERD or something like that, like
woy would you blazing Skinner you dang? And IM sir,
we don't play Leonard SKINNERD were today's best music or
whatever the frequency positioning was. But it was just me
talking to myself on a phone. And the final before
the morning show comes in, I acted as if in
(05:08):
my last break, all right, Kelly Nash, wrapping it up,
We'll be back tomorrow night midnight, be here with you
till five am. And then there's a knock on the door,
and I had pre recorded myself going, ah, he ain't
so tough. Now that I'm here in person, I'm like,
oh my god, what are you doing here? And then
I had a sound effect of a shotgun and then
I fell on the board and it was just dead air.
(05:31):
And then I waited about ten seconds and I hit
a commercial. And the commercials were set up, even in
those days where they could play in a row. There's
a pre computers, but they had to what they were
called sec tones on the commercial, so I knew there'd
be five minutes of commercials, and then there was a
jingle into a song, so we're covered. Even though the
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morning show's not here, they should be here other time.
And so I just walked out, got my car. It
was already packed, and I just started the drip back
to Connecticut at like five in the morning. And I
always wondered, were there any like listeners called the Rutland
Police Department. I think the DJ on the Grade ninety
seven just got shot live on the radio. It would
(06:15):
have been believable. And I set it up that way.
I was an idiot, and I apologize if anybody fell
for that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That was back in the day when gunplay was fun.
I was doing a broadcast one morning here in Columbia
when I first came back on a billboard, and I've
forgotten who thought it was a great idea. It could
have been Sammy. Sammy thought would be a great idea
if we did drive by. So there were gunshots that
ring out, and then I've forgotten what we put on
(06:42):
the air, but I'm yelling, oh my god, he's got
a gun, you know, just and Sally's listening.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh so she really thinks this is oh yeah, she's
going nuts. This is not funny.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, that was that's not comedy. I don't know how
many Morning Russia regulars enjoyed it, but she said that
is not comedy.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I like how you said. I don't know who came
up with it. It was Sammy. You immediately it was
just blame it on him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He's not even here anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, cellular Sammy must have done.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's great. All right, no gunplay tomorrow in the morning Rush.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's our pledge to you.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Have you come up with a way. Have you seen
this pulled off where somebody comes up with a way
to get fired so they can because they're tired of
their soul second job and while they look for another job,
they'd rather be collecting unemployment. That's the key.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah. I don't know how to do that one.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's a tough one, I do. I just did hear
you were talking about never getting an opportunity to go
back on the air for a spon song. I'm transferring
a lot of Kelly can tell you my my office
supposed office is a storage facility. His boxes of cassette tapes.
So and I just heard one yesterday. I'm transferring to digital.
(07:51):
It was one of my last shows. I just happened
to hear me say it's the last show, last show
for where I was. I think I was in Charlotte. Oh,
it was the last show the last day I was
on the air in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So, but you know, you don't get those opportunities anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You were probably going to work for maybe a company
and Raleigh or something that they kind of knew each other,
the owners knew each other. And so if you couldn't
screw that up, because if you did, then they would
have just called up to rally and said, this guy
is a total jerk. Drop them. Drop them.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So my, by the way, I'm doing pretty good to
cleaning my office out of all these cassettes. I've got cassettes.
Now I got to figure out what I'm going to
do to destroy them now that I have transferred them
to digital.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, I can tell you've already read our next story
at ninety seventy five w sos dot com. The number
one selling form of music is now cassettes. It is
surpassed CDs, It has surpassed records. Can you believe this? Cassettes?
Cassettes are coming back. Four hundred and thirty thousand music
cassettes were sold last year. They're on target out to
(08:55):
do two million this year, unbelievable and number one and
buy her gen Z. Gen Z apparently thinks it's cute
when they see it on old television shows. They see
the cassettes. The New York Post speaks with Amy Campbell,
twenty six year old in Rockford, Illinois, who bought the
new Casey Musgraves album on cassette. Here's my favorite part
(09:19):
of the story. I borrowed my mom's cassette player, but
I didn't know how to actually play it. I studied
it for about five or ten minutes trying to figure
out how to get this thing going on. I don't know.
It just says she didn't know how to put a
cassette into the cassette player, and so she had to
get her mom to come show her. And she says
(09:40):
it is a little bit tiring trying to figure out
how to fast forward, rewind the cars. You just try
to get to the song that you want to hear now.
But it's adorable, it's charming, it's vintage, so they're going
with it. Have you bought anything vintage like recently, just
(10:00):
something that like, like my wife bought a record player
and so she's got some records now and she likes particularly,
I think the jazz records, and I think these are reissued.
I don't think these are original jazz albums or whatever,
so to speak. But she just loves the way it
sounds on a record player.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Lee bought one of those, and I've forgotten the company
is very popular with the ones all that the youngsters
are buying. Lee bought one of those record players. And
the only time we ever use it is Sally has
some old records that her mom used to play during Christmas,
and she will put it on that and you hear
the pops and the scratches and all that, and it
really sounds like you just transported yourself back to nineteen whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I like the way records sounded over CDs in the
sense that they felt more full to me, CDs sounded
kind of I don't I don't know if the word
tinny is the right word, but thin, something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But that's the thing with the with the new digital technology,
there's the audio is rest so you don't get the
full audio feel from listening to an album. You put
on an album. You put on a led Zeppelin album
on a really good system.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Ok, side of the moon with your headphones absolutely in
your bedroom, you're thirteen again.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The But I'm just trying to think of other things
that people like. I know that one of the more
popular things would be to get the retro looking blenders, right,
the retro kitchen gadgets, But they're not actually them. They're
the they're updated. They can do all the things that
you want them to do today, not like they did
(11:40):
in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This morning, I would for whatever reason, I don't know
why I thought about this. Oh, I remember thinking, I'm
on a milkshake. It was like six twenty this morning,
and I remember my grandparents had a general store in Newbery,
right there at the Milliken on the mill Hill over there,
across from the Oakland base Ballpark, and I would go
(12:03):
ahead and get them to make me a milkshake. It
was the old fashioned spindle. It's got the one spindle.
It was a Hamilton beach. It's green. It's that ugly
avocado green color. And when I moved from Charlotte, my
grandmother giving me one. She gave one of my brothers,
And when I moved from Charlotte, I left it in
a cabinet and I called the guy back as soon
as I got to Ohio, and I said, hey, I
(12:24):
left a blender in the cabinet, and do me a favor.
Just put that aside. A friend come by and pick
it up. And he said, now, I've already cleaned out
the house. There's no blender in there.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm already gone.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And you look them up now to get the original
blender like that. Those things are expensive, the not the
remanufactured ones. Sure, the original. I want one of those.
And I was just recently shopping for a jukebox, oh okay,
like the one they had at the Civitan Pool in Saluta. Yeah,
that old fashioned jukebox. I loved the old warlt sirs,
(12:56):
remember that had the lights on the front. You punch
in L seven and they would play Diamond Girl by
Silas and Crofts.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For some reason, I was listening to some Oldies channel
or something recently and I heard please, mister, please don't
play B seventeen from Olivia Newton John And if you're
not from the jukebox era, you have no idea what
she's talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
What was a Strawberry Letter twenty three? Name of the
album was busted out of L seven. Was that it?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I think that was it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's another reference to a jukebox.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But you know, whether it's music, kitchen gadgets, like I
would think that most will say I feel like it's
more of a nostalgia feel so like I remember being
a kid working at my grandparents' antique store and we
would sell old milk bottles. People liked them because it
reminded them of the nineteen fifties. Now we're only in
(13:49):
the nineteen seventies, but they were Like when I was
a kid, I'd go out on the back porch and
there'd be the fresh, new glass milk bottle. We didn't
think anything of them. But it's so great to be
able to buy I want and keep it because it
was a nostalgic thing for them to have. It's part
of their childhood. I can't imagine, Like I don't know,
(14:09):
I'm fifty seven now, so i'd have to go back
to something from like the nineteen fifties or forties, Like
I wouldn't be interested in reliving something that I never
lived through. Where today it's the twenty six year old
wants to experience cassette tapes.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yes to me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Cassette tapes sucked. They used to rip, they they get stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
In the machine.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I hated cassettes. I couldn't wait for CDs to be invented.
And then when they got invented, I was like, these
still suck. They skip all the time. Will somebody invented
MP three? And finally we're now at a level where
I can just listen to any song I want on
the iHeartRadio app at any time. And I love this.
I don't want to go back.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I just thought about what I saw recently. I've forgotten
how I stumbled into it. I've forgotten I had it.
It was called a clam phone. Oh yeah, sure, so
called it a maybe a princess phone. I don't remember that.
But sad, this is the one that Sally had in
her room as a teenager. Okay, and I need to go.
(15:09):
It's got a different connection now. I need to rewire
it so I can plug it in so we'll actually
have Sally's teenage.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh my gosh. But imagine imagine going back even further
and getting one of those old school like were you know,
the kind like you see in like nineteen twenty, and
put that in your house like, why would you want that?
You didn't live through that era.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now Sarah's only two, so she has no idea what
she's looking at. But my dad has one of those
on the wall and it's got a little light attached
to it because you know, when you crank it, Yeah,
it actually generates electricity. That's how that's how you know.
It's fired up signal to the operator you want to
make a call. So we were and now I was
the I've cranked my arm off the other day, cranking
(15:50):
that you really? Yeah, she loved the sound of it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
By the way. Side note on phone numbers from I
guess I was born in the sixties, but I think
they were still using it in the sixties. Are you
familiar with Like how could somebody's phone number be like
Beechwood seven five Oh No.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I have no idea how that worked.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's like they always give me.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Movies and he goes, yes, alb uh, it's Alpine.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I guess it must have been the street. I don't know,
I'm on I'm on Beechwood Street. And then I only
had four digits seven to five oh one for or something.
And then an operator would somehow physically connect you that's insane.
We have some breaking news here and I see it
on MSNBC. I'm reading it here on TMZ as well,
that there's been several arrests made this morning regarding the
(16:42):
Matthew Perry overdose.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Gotta be some drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, they got a drug dealer at least one, and
they've got a doctor. So they don't have the names
at least in the TMZ story yet this is you know,
did that whatever happened to the doctor involved in the Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Jackson I do not.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I think that guy ended up going to jail, didn't
I think, because I think most.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
People lost he lost his license.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
The Michael Jackson doctor. That that's one of the most
frustrating things to me because the Michael Jackson doctor literally
had one job. You sit here while I sleep and
make sure my heart keeps going.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, And he was big.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sure Michael Jackson was paying him a ton of
dough to do that one job.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And he left, We're gonna put you under propo ball.
All you gotta do is monitor me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's all you had to do, Bro. And he left
and he comes back like an hour and a half later.
Michael Jackson's dead the one time. I don't know, I
don't know how many times the guy probably have left early,
but this one time you leave so I'd see the
death of Michael Jackson. I'm trying to see. Murray said
he was worried he became dependent. Blah blah blah. Wow,
(17:59):
And in twenty sixteen, Inside Edition reported that that doctor
Murray is still visiting patients.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Really, I am shocked.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Did he ever go to jail? He was formally charged
in twenty eleven with involuntary manslaughter, went to trial, convicted
of involuntary manslaughter. Bail was revoked and remained in custody
till his November twenty nine sentencing date. He got the
maximum penalty of four years in prison, and his medical
license was revoked in Texas, but California and Nevada only
(18:30):
suspended those licenses, and instead of doing all four years,
he got out. I guess he got out a year
later in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
So shocking.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So he did a year for the death of Michael Jackson.
That seems an underwhelming sentence. But anyway, I don't know
what they're gonna do with these doctors.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What's his name again? I gotta committed the memory in
case he ever comes here. Conrad Murray, Yeah, go ahead,
this is doctor Conrad Murray. Oh, Michael Jackson, I think
I'll reschedule. Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about. Let us know. You know how
to reach out to us on social media. You can
email it Rush at ninety seven five company us.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Dot com and Nash at ninety seven five to be
s us dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Tomorrow we start talking getting into the weekend t GIF.
You dial it up at eight oh three ninety seven
eight ninet two sixty seven on the morning Rush
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